KATHRYN HARRISON has written the novels Thicker Than Water, Exposure, Poison, The Binding Chair, The Seal Wife, and Envy and Enchantments. Her autobiographical work includes The Kiss, Seeking Rapture, The Road to Santiago, and The Mother Knot. She has also written a biography, St. Therese of Lisieux, and a book of true crime, While They Slept: An Inquiry Into the Murder of a Family. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison, and their three children.
L. Arkansas Light Stage Manager credits include: The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Medea, The Hotel Nepenthe (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Shear Madness (Charles Playhouse); Absence, Windowmen, Legally Dead, Mortal Terror, The River Was Whiskey, and Repossession (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); A Child’s Christmas in Wales (BPT/Boston Children’s Theatre); To Kill a Mockingbird (BCT); The Libertine (Bridge Rep & Playhouse Creatures NYC); Sunday in the Park with George (Brandeis Theater Company); Assassins, Never the Sinner, The Judas Kiss, No Way to Treat a Lady, And the World Goes ‘Round, Sideman, Inspecting Carol, and The Curse of the Bambino (The Lyric Stage); Pageant, How Many Miles to Basra?, A Year with Frog & Toad, Picnic, Strangers on a Train, and Dear Miss Garland (Stoneham Theatre); Patience, Yeoman of the Guard, A Little Night Music, Nine, and Gypsy (The Publick Theatre); The Orphan Queen (The Jewish Theatre of New England). Arkansas is also the Co-Director of the Young Company at Merrimack Repertory Theatre. She holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College and an MA from Purdue University.
Off-Broadway: Tamburlaine Parts I & II (Theater for a New Audience), Hamlet & Saint Joan (Bedlam/Lynn Redgrave Theater). Other New York: The Best of Everything (HERE Arts), A Hard Wall at High Speed (APAC), The Libertine, (Kirk Theater). Regional: Richard II, The Taster, Measure for Measure (Shakespeare & Co.), From Orchids to Octopi (Central Square Theater), Humble Boy (Publick Theater Boston), Questa (Court Theater). TV: CSI, Criminal Minds, E.R., The Shield. Film: A New Tomorrow, Avenging Angel, Crash N’Burn. Tom-OKeefe.com
Edmund Lewis is very happy to be back in Cambridge, having appeared in the 2015 Elliot Norton Award winning productions of Bedlam’s Saint Joan (here at CST) and The Tempest (at A.R.T.) Most recently, he played Colonel Brandon in Bedlam’s hugely successful Off-Broadway run of Sense & Sensibility as well as numerous characters in the east coast premiere of Steven Sater’s New York Animals. Edmund is an original member of the acclaimed Bedlam company, having acted in the original runs of Saint Joan and Hamlet (both at the Access Theatre and Off-Broadway at the Lynn Redgrave Theatre) in addition to Twelfth Night and What You Will (at the Abingdon Theatre.) Other New York credits include Sackville & Mr. Harris in The Libertine (at the Chernuchin–also directed by Eric Tucker); Mark in The Philadelphia, Kafka in Words, Words, Words and Sir Richard Attenborough in Time Flies (Bang Theatre Collective) and the Horny Delivery Guy in 95% Chance They’ll Wind Up Like Larvae (NY Fringe). Edmund can also be seen in his friend Gregory Abbey’s web series, Marriage & Other Tragedies, as well as in Andrew Lawton’s short film Have You Seen Calvin? which will be premiering at various film festivals this year.
Off Broadway: Bedlam’s Hamlet and Saint Joan (Lucille Lortel Award Nomination – Outstanding Lead Actress), Sense & Sensibilty, and The Seagull. New York: Hello From Bertha (Pook’s Hill), Hamlet (Shakespeare Forum), The Libertine (Fools’ Theatre). Regional: Hamlet and Saint Joan (Bedlam; Helen Hayes Award Nomination – Outstanding Lead Actress); Hamlet (title role), Iphigenia & Other Daughters (We Players/Alcatraz Island); Twelfth Night; Julius Caesar; The Rainmaker; The Importance of Being Earnest; others. Proud member of Actors’ Equity. Andrus is the Producing Director of Bedlam, which she founded with Eric Tucker in 2012. Andrus-Nichols.com